Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Ten Ways Writers Are Like Zombies

I've struggled to figure out the zombie mystique, though reading Sommer Marsden(Big Bad, We Kill Dead Things) helped greatly. Finally it dawned on me, how much writers and zombies have in common. We're brothers and sisters under the skin. (Well, if zombies had skin.)

There is no real logic as to why zombies exist. They just have this overwhelming need to bezombies.
There is no real logic as to why people write. Whether they never sell a single book, or sell millions, they just have this overwhelming need to write.

Zombies are often incoherent and impossible to understand.
Writers... yep. Especially pre-caffeine.

Zombies roam the world, leaving mangled corpses and fragments of flesh in their wake.
Writers roam the Internet, leaving mangled prose and sentence fragments in their wake.

Zombies movies are often so bad they cross the line to hilarious entertainment.
Books, poetry and scripts are often so bad they cross the line to hilarious entertainment.

Zombies smell disgusting and wear ragged clothing full of holes and stains.
Writers in the middle of a writing/editing jag smell... Wait, is that just me?

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